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‘Something we try might go wrong or it might not be good, but we’ll address it’: 2XKO director promises the team is committed to the new League of Legends fighting game

Just a couple weeks out from its early access release on October 7, League of Legends fighting game 2XKO’s director is giving players a fair warning that the spin-off might not be perfect—not because it’s rife with issues, but because Riot wants to try out new ideas with its first foray into the genre. So,…

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‘The team wanted to present more than a postcard or a backdrop’: Forza Horizon 6 devs credit road trips and Hot Wheels DLC for upcoming racer

The next stop in the Forza series will be Japan in Forza Horizon 6, but the team at Playground Games has had a long road to get there, one that included, oddly enough, Hot Wheels. In an interview with GamesRadar, Forza Horizon 6 art director Don Arceta dove into how Playground Games prepared to recreate…

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Don’t Lie is a freaky new horror game about a reclusive ‘hikikomori’ trapped in liminal spaces with terrifying hallucinations and so very many eyes

Do you ever feel a bit funny and then realize you’ve not left your apartment in five days? No, just me then? Broken Lore: Don’t Lie, a spin-off of the horror game Don’t Watch, encapsulates that feeling and then some. It puts you in the shoes of Junko, an isolated young woman losing her grip…

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New party game Task Time promises ‘unlimited chaos’ with over 500,000 task variations and the instruction to ‘do what it takes’ to win

Does it ever feel like videogames just have you completing random tasks? In Task Time, that’s the whole point. From developer ReadGraves, whose staff includes Fall Guys and Gang Beasts developers, comes a party game that promises more than 500,000 task variations for you and your friends to do. Revealed today for the first time…

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Don’t lie: You’ve always wanted to be a djent-fueled shapeshifting robot samurai, and Morbid Metal’s imminent playtest will finally deliver the goods

Morbid Metal looks over the top even among character action games. You play as not one cyberninja, but three (which I guess makes this a characters action game), and when PC Gamer news writer Elie Gould checked out a preview build at Gamescom, they said their expectations were “blown out of the water within the…

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